“The only place I can get that suitcase is in Laos,” Kelly messaged Nelson.
Donna Nelson claimed she was tricked into carrying the case into Japan.
“Okay, so what’s the plan? How are you? I miss you.”
Messages from Nelson to the man show her asking him to call and email more regularly.
“I don’t want to get hurt again,” she wrote.
“I will never hurt you, sweetheart,” he replied.
But when she arrived in Laos, there was no booking for her at the hotel. The man suggested she pay for a room at the Crown Plaza.
Nelson sent a message saying she was thinking about going home and was worried.
“Please wait. The guy is at work. He will come with $1500 as soon as he finishes,” a message to her read.
The court heard Nelson only received the suitcase from Kelly’s “business manager” 15 minutes before checking out to fly to Japan.
There were clothing samples inside, but she didn’t notice anything strange about the case and placed her belongings in it before heading for her flight to Tokyo.
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Prosecutors questioned Nelson over a Japanese residence card Nelson said her online lover had sent to her.
They asked her whether she thought it strange that he was wearing glasses in the photo. At times, the grandmother bit back, saying she couldn’t read the characters and didn’t understand Japanese law.
The prosecutor then pointed out the address on the ID card was actually that at the office of Japanese prosecutors, but Nelson said she didn’t see the relevance of the question, and likened it to her asking him a question about a Perth address.
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